Where to go next?

[Bogey]

Welcome to GMG!

Top-o'-my-head suggestions:

Rakhmaninov, All-Night Vigil (a/k/a Vespers)

Truth.

[Mirror Image]

I've been headed in that direction for the past year, spending more and more listening time on orchestral works (and some chamber works) and less and less on solo instrumental music. I'm curious if it's just a phase or a permanent change in my tastes due to maturing as a listener or similar. Sometimes chamber or solo music really catches my attention but I'm rarely as moved as I am with orchestral pieces. I think I might blame Beethoven's 9th being my sole piece of classical music for about a year in my teens and its influence on me!

Yeah, I hear you. There are so many colors, emotions, and textures that can be created in an orchestral setting that I find something new even if it's a work I've heard 100 times.

[Opus106]

I've been headed in that direction for the past year, spending more and more listening time on orchestral works (and some chamber works) and less and less on solo instrumental music. I'm curious if it's just a phase or a permanent change in my tastes due to maturing as a listener or similar. Sometimes chamber or solo music really catches my attention but I'm rarely as moved as I am with orchestral pieces. I think I might blame Beethoven's 9th being my sole piece of classical music for about a year in my teens and its influence on me!

Given your familiarity Beethoven's symphonies (or some of them in the least), I would suggest, when you have the time, to give Liszt's transcriptions of these to solo piano a try. They are astounding pieces of work. I still remember the first time I heard the 9th in this guise and being amazed at the orchestra, chorus and the four soloists brought out from the 88 keys.

[nesf]

Thanks very much guys!